Music
Musical instruments can be played in a variety of ways. Most instruments are portable, while others function as player house furniture, and some are publicly available in fixed locations.
You can also check the table in musical instruments.
Contents
Instrument commands
There are several commands you can use with different instruments.
Play
play <instrument>
This takes 10 gp, and seems to be available for all instruments.
play music on <instrument> from <object>
Primers and other sheet music are available for some instruments, and this is the syntax you use with them.
Perform solo
perform solo on <instrument>
This takes 10 gp, and seems to be available for all instruments.
Serenade
serenade <living> on <instrument>
This takes 10 gp, and seems to be available for all instruments.
serenade <living> with <string> on <instrument>
This is a more difficult version of the above, but it still takes 10 gp.
Tune
Many instruments need to be tuned before they can be played. This takes 5 gp. These include:
- an acoustic guitar
- a banjo
- a black clarinet
- a black violin
- a biwa
- a clarinet
- a dark glossy lute
- an ebony guqin
- a Genuine Genuan guitar
- a guitar
- a lute
- a lyre
- a silver flute
- a ukulele of pain
- a violin
- a wooden koto
(It appears all stringed instruments need tuning.)
Strum
Most stringed instruments may be strummed. This takes 10 gp. These include:
- a banjo
- a biwa
- a dark glossy lute
- an ebony guqin
- a long shamisen
- a lyre
- a wooden koto
- a ukulele of pain
Blow
A wooden whistle can be blown. This takes 10 gp.
Skills used
The appropriate skill from the crafts.music.instruments subtree determines how well you can play a musical instrument. In general, easiest to most difficult commands/methods are: tune - strum (stringed) - use primers - play - serenade - perform (solo) - use music sheets. When it becomes more difficult to TM using one method, such as "play", the TM rate may increase if a higher level command such as "serenade" or "perform" is used.
In the basement of the Temple of Cool, there is a wall with some musical notes painted on it. Looking at or humming these notes uses crafts.music.theory, and humming them also uses crafts.music.instruments.vocal.
Care of instruments
Although instruments don't have a visible condition, they can still break. Holding them while fighting can damage them, and they can break in containers (although the exact circumstances for this are unknown).
You can check their condition with the condition command, and fix or repair them at a smithy or wood workshop, depending on their material.
Publicly available instruments
Percussion:
- A black tambourine in the Fang music room, Bes Pelargic.
- A dobachi in the Sung music room, Bes Pelargic.
- A kokiriko in the Fang and Hong music rooms, Bes Pelargic.
- A taiko drum in the Sung and Hong music rooms, Bes Pelargic.
- Cobbles in the garden of the Academy of Artificers, which are played by hopping on them.
Wind:
- A bamboo flute in the Fang music room, Bes Pelargic.
- A carved bone shakuhachi in the Sung music room, Bes Pelargic. (Note: unplayable.)
- A tin shakuhachi in the Sung music room, Bes Pelargic.
Stringed:
- A biwa in the Hong music room, Bes Pelargic.
- An ebony guqin in the Sung music room, Bes Pelargic.
- A long shamisen in the Hong music room, Bes Pelargic.
- An ornate wooden harp in the Magpyr Castle, in Uberwald.
- A wooden koto in the Fang and Sung music rooms, Bes Pelargic.
Keyboard:
- A black piano in the haunted house on Zombie Walk in Genua.
- A decorative harpsichord in the mansion on Ibis Parade in Djelibeybi.
- An organ in Gufnork's temple in Ankh-Morpork. When played well enough, it gives out fluff--otherwise, Gufnork inflicts various effects[1] on the player. (It also only has the "play" command, and takes 20 gp to play.)
- A piano in the Assassins' Guild in Ankh-Morpork.
- An unfathomably baroque grand piano on a first floor landing in the Academy of Artificers. When played, it gives out sweets.
- Stretching the definition of "public", a dark mahogany piano in a locked flat in the Salt Shaker.
Vocal:
- Notes painted on a wall in the basement of the Temple of Cool. Also requires some crafts.music.theory.
Sheet music:
- A blue book of sheet music in the Sung music room, Bes Pelargic. Entitled "The Great Harmony in Ancestral Sung Melodies, for Stringed Instruments", it is usable with stringed instruments (while it specifically says "the biwa, the guqin, the koto and the shamisen", you can use it with other stringed instruments).
- In a locked flat in the Salt Shaker, sheet music can be gotten from the piano. One sheet can be found at a time, and the song can be one of "Uberwald", "Ode to a Friend", or "Blood".
Related Achievements
- Achievement: One Person Band
- Achievement: Windfall
- Achievement: Windbag
- Achievement: Romantic
- Achievement: Keen Keyboarder
- Achievement: Highly Strung
- Achievement: Beatnik
- Achievement: Walking Orchestra
See also
External links
- Deb's DW Music MUD Database - a list of musical instruments, where to find them, and what bonuses are needed to play them.